William Shakespeare

Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of William Shakespeare

Biography : English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

United Kingdom

William Shakespeare - Quotes

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

heart

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare

time

No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

music

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

sun

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

happiness

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

death

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar /

death

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

death

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

life

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare /

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

love

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice /

patience

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

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